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New Board Members at Visit Santa Cruz County V isit Santa Cruz County has four new board members. Each began their duties on July 1, and will sit on the 25-member Board for two-year terms. They are: Zachary Davis: The Glass Jar e co-founded The Glass Jar, Inc., a Santa Cruz-based restaurant group, in 2009, and is CEO. Current brands include four locations of The Penny Ice Creamery, an ice cream manufacturing and retail business dedicated to organic, locally-sourced and seasonal ingredients and The Picnic Basket Café, in Santa Cruz’s beach area. In 2018 The Glass Jar was selected by Sen. Zachary Davis Bill Monning to receive the Small Business of the Year Award for the 17th Senate District. In 2014 The Glass Jar was the recipient of Business of the Year from the Santa Cruz Chamber. Davis is a board member of the Santa Cruz Downtown Association and the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Small Business Council of the Small Business Majority. He has an MBA from Dominican University of California in San Rafael and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. He lives in Santa Cruz County with his wife and three children. Grant D’Entremont: The Hotel Paradox riginally from Austin, Texas, he began working in hospitality as a valet and grew his career with Marriott.
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He accepted his first general manager job at the Fairfield Inn Austin South in 2007. He served in leadership positions with Marriott, and in 2014 departed White Lodging, a hotel management company, after 10 years to join Austin-based Pathfinder Hospitality. While overseeing Grant D’Entremont three properties, he assisted in the development and build of the Residence Inn Austin Southwest, and initial development of Aloft Austin Southwest. He is the winner of several industry awards, including Extended Stay General Manager of the Year. In 2020 he was offered the opportunity to be the general manager for the new Residence Inn by Marriott Steamboat Springs in Colorado, which began the next phase of his career with Remington Hotels. After a successful opening in December 2020, the hotel was a top performer for Marriott and selected as one of Forbes “Best New Ski Hotels in North America.” When Remington Hotels with Barings LLC took over management of the Hotel Paradox, an Autograph Collection by Marriott in Santa Cruz in June 2021, he was selected to lead the transition and became general manager. The Hotel Paradox will begin an extensive renovation of all meeting spaces, public areas, pool space, dining facilities, and guest rooms at the end of 2022. An avid outdoorsman, D’Entremont enjoys
mountain biking, golfing, skiing, hiking and camping and has been involved in charitable endeavors. Bijal Patel: Redwood Hospitality e is CEO of Coast Redwood Hospitality, a 44-year-old company based in Santa Cruz County that owns and operates a portfolio of hotels and other real estate. A third-generation hotelier, he signed his first hotel franchise agreement at 18. He is Bijal Patel the youngest chairman in the California Hotel & Lodging Association’s 128-year history and is the first to fully serve two consecutive terms in that role. Over the past five years, he has held leadership roles in the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, notably as a member of the Young Professional Hoteliers Committee and as an ambassador in the North Pacific Region. He is committed to exposing more
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young people, especially second- and third-generation South Asian Americans, to the sophistication — and legacy rewards — of managing a generational family hotel business. Lynette Valdez: Bailey Property Management he joined Bailey Property Management in 2000. As vacation rental manager, she is responsible for ensuring the 70 homes within the company’s portfolio are properly managed. Valdez also manages the coordination of schedules Lynette Valdez with owners and clients, providing a smooth reservation process, from check-in to check-out. She supervises maintenance projects, housekeeping duties, property inspections, and is involved in advertising efforts, strategic planning, and business development for Bailey Property Management. n
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State Approves Funds for Highway 17 Repair
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Caltrans project to stabilize an eroded slope on Highway 17 near Scotts Valley in Santa Cruz County, half a mile south of Sugarloaf Road, has been awarded $4.4 million by the California Transportation Commission. This project includes grading, dewatering, and the installation of mesh drapery to reduce falling debris. In June, the California Transportation
Commission allocated more than $3 billion to repair and improve transportation infrastructure throughout the state, including $1.3 billion in funding from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to support local projects and to protect local roads and bridges from extreme weather and natural disasters. “Highway 17” page 7
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